Me too!I've been watching the Themis lectures and then will do the practice questions from Themis, Barbri, and Kaplan. I've heard it doesn't require much study, but I'd rather not have to take it again...

Do lots of practice questions and read outlines. You can probably watch the lecture(s) once over if that suits your learning style. I personally did not benefit much from watching the lectures and got most of my rules learned by doing/analyzing practice questions.

That's about as much time as I studied--a week or two. Used Barbri. Read about 10/14 of the chapters. Listened to many of the lectures, too. Did one practice test to get accustomed to the questions and get a sense for how timing would go. Was worried about passing since there was a lot of material I didn't cover. Passed very comfortably with a 114. I would say main advice is don't disregard the judicial ethics stuff because I think it gets disproportionate attention. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.

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I'm kinda overdoing it. I signed up for Barbri and Kaplan (Barbri for the lectures/questions and Kaplan just for the extra questions).

But for Kaplan's multiple choice, I've found that the explanatory answers are horrible. All they do is repeat the applicable law in every set of answer explanations instead of explaining why that specific answer choice is wrong. Barbri usually ties the incorrect answer choice to the fact pattern while explaining why it's wrong. Kaplan? They'll go, "(A) is wrong because [Model Rule 1.2]. (B) is wrong because of [Model Rule 1.2]. And (C) is wrong because of [Model Rule 1.2]." They'll even do that for the wrong choices that are just as attractive as the correct ones. Like, what's the point of offering an explanation for the three incorrect answer choices if they all say the same thing? You never really see why you got an answer wrong. They even show how often answers are selected, and don't even offer a distinction when the wrong answer is selected more often than the right answer. That's crazy. At least offer some insight into why people are selecting the wrong one over the right one.

Oh well. I'm just doing Kaplan for the extra practice because I definitely don't want to take it over again. I'm kinda doing this backwards; I took the FL bar in July (passed) and now I'm doing the MPRE. So now that I'm this close, I definitely don't want to take anything for granted.

I'm taking them at my home. I've alternated between the couch and bed. I've seen significantly higher scores in bed, so I've petitioned NCBE to let me bring my bed to the testing center. (Fingers crossed they approve the accommodation!)

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